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on why he writes the things he writes: "Because I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. ↗

— Stephen King

#on-writing #storytelling #humor

On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#writing #humor

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. ↗

— Stephen King

#imagination

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#quality #skill #writers #writing #imagination

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#imagination #writing #imagination

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. ↗

— Stephen King

#imagination

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#writing #imagination

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. ↗

— Violet Haberdasher

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #writing #imagination